3rd Int'l Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in Economic and Social
Complex Systems (AESCS04)

CALL FOR PAPERS (3rd Announcement)


AESCS'04
The Third International Workshop on Agent-based Approaches in  Economic
and Social Complex Systems

May 27-29, 2004,
Kyodai-Kaikan, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan
Pacific Asian Association for Agent-based Social Sciences (PAAA)
Web Site: http://133.68.63.71/~aescs/index.html
AESCS is held in the above date and place in parallel with
The 9th WORKSHOP ON ECONOMICS AND HETEROGENEOUS INTERACTING AGENTS
(WEHIA 04, http://www.nda.ac.jp/cs/AI/wehia04)

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What's New
   - Procedure of Submission (by e-mail) is added. Deadline of
submission is Feb. 27, 2004.
   - Official web site of AESCS'04 is moved to Web Site:
       http://133.68.63.71/~aescs/index.html.
   - Information of Registration and Accommodation will be announced
later.
   - Publication information of previous AESCSs is added.
   - Links to workshop site are added.
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1. Aims and Scope of the Workshop

There are many economic, organizational and social problems which
require
collective information-processing with a large collection of autonomous
and
heterogeneous agents. The third workshop on Agent-based Approaches in
Economic
and Social Complex Systems (AESCS'04) is to foster the formation of an
active
multi-disciplinary community on multiagent, computational economics,
organizational science, social dynamics, and complex systems.

The aim of AESCS is also to bring together researchers and
practitioners from
diverse fields, such as computer science, economics, physics, sociology,
psychology, and complex system theory for understanding emergent and
collective
phenomena in economic, organizational, and social systems, and to
discuss on
effectiveness and limitations of computational models and methods in
social
sciences. Furthermore, AESCS focuses on an importance of cumulative
progress of
agent-based simulation through a discussion of (1) common tasks, (2)
standard
computational models, (3) replicating issue, and (4) evaluation and
verification
criteria for results and papers (e.g. benchmark).

The 1st and 2nd AESCS invited Michael Cohen, Kathleen Carley, and
Robert Axtel
as keynote speakers. In AESCS'04, we are planning to invite
distinguished
researchers in the field.

2. Topics

The technical issues to be addressed include, but not limited to:

[Formal Theories on Agent-based Approaches]: agent-based computational
   foundations; theories on rationality, intention, emotion, social
action,
   social interaction; heterogeneity and diversity of agents
[Computational Economics and Organization Theory]: agent-based
economics;
   market-based computing; artificial markets; agents in financial
engineering;
   econophysics; computational organization theory
[Formal Theories of Social Dynamics]: methodologies of modeling social
   behaviors; chaotic and fractal dynamics; dynamics of populations
   Modeling, Simulation and Validation Techniques: modeling tool for
agent-based
   simulation; large scale socio-economic simulation; utilization of
machine
   learning and other AI techniques; hybridization of agent-based
simulation and
   gaming simulation
[Collective Intelligence]: collective decision and behaviors; emergent
   intelligence; social intelligence
[Applications and Related Areas]: evolutionary economics; complex
theory;
   evolutionary computation; evolutionary games

3. Paper Format

Your paper should not exceed 8 pages in length with one column as in a
single
space. Use A4 paper (29.7cm x 21 cm), 2.5cm margins on the top and
sides, 3cm
bottom margin. This includes all figures, tables, graphs, and
bibliography.
Please, do *not* include the page numbers in your camera-ready paper.

The title of the paper is centered 2.5cm below the top of the page in
16 point
bold font. Right below the title, the name of the authors, their
affiliation
information and their email addresses should be written. The font size
for the
authors is 12pt while their affiliation information is in 10pt. The
author font
is bold but the affiliation is not. The main text for your paper should
be 10pt
font or larger.

4. Organized Session

Proposals of organized sessions are also welcome. Proposal should
contain 1)
Title of the session, 2) Aims of the session, 3) Organizers'
information (Names,
Affiliations and E-mail addresses), 4) Corresponding organizer, 5)
Titles,
Authors, and Abstracts (more than 200 words) of all the papers
presented in the
session.

5. Procedure of Submission

Send a regular paper (in PDF) or a proposal of an organized session (in
plain
text) to

   Ms. Yayoi Mizuno,
   Secretary, Kaneda Laboratory,
   Nagoya Institute of Technology,
   Gokiso, Showa, Nagoya
   466-8555,JAPAN
   Phone: +81 52 735 5511
   FAX: +81 52 735 5503
   e-mail: [log in to unmask]

In submission by e-mail, follow the instruction below
   - Write "AESCS'04 paper submission" or "AESCS'04 proposal of an
organized
     session" in the "subject" field of e-mail.
   - In submission of a regular paper,
     provide the following information in the body of e-mail
       * Title of the paper
       * Author(s)
       * Affiliation(s)
       * Name of the corresponding author
       * Address of the corresponding author
       * E-mail address of the corresponding author
       * Phone/Fax number of the corresponding author
   - Attach PDF file of the paper
       * Less than 2 Mega bytes.
       * Be careful in readability of bit-image figures in your paper.
Sometimes
         resolution of image gets insufficient in conversion to PDF.
       * Use only fonts for English. Some Asian Fonts may not be handled
         correctly at reviewers.
   - In proposal of an organized session, provide information required
above in
     plain text.

6. Publication

Accepted papers are published in the workshop proceedings. We are also
planning
to publish the selected number of papers presented in AESCS'04 from
Springer
after the workshop.

The following are publication of selected papers presented in previous
AESCS
workshops:
   - 1st AESCS: T. Terano, A. Namatame, S. Tsumoto, Y. Ohsawa and T.
Washio eds.
     "New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence," LNAI 2253, Springer
(2001),
     ISBN 3-540-43070-9
   - 2nd AESCS: T. Terano, H. Deguchi and K. Takadama eds. "Meeting the
     Challenge of Social Problems via Agent-Based Simulation", Springer
(2003),
     ISBN 4-431-00830-6

7. Important Dates

   - February 27, 2004: Submission deadline of regular papers and
proposals of
     organized sessions (by e-mail)
   - March 27, 2004: Notification of paper/organized session acceptance
     (by e-mail)
   - April 27, 2004: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due (by
e-mail/Web)
     May 27, 2004: Workshop

8. Registration and Participants

The registration fees are 10,000 Japanese Yen which will cover
conference
materials including the proceedings.

AESCS is held in parallel with The 9th WORKSHOP ON ECONOMICS AND
HETEROGENEOUS
INTERACTING AGENTS (WEHIA 04). Participants to AESCS'04 can attend to
all the
sessions of these workshops.

Way of registration and reservation of accommodation is under
preparation. They
will be announced later.

9. PAAA

To held AESCS continuously and to encourage research in this field,
Pacific
Asian Association for Agent-based Social Sciences (PAAA) is founded.
For further information, visit web site of PAAA
(http://www.paaa.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/).

10. Workshop Site

   Kyodai-Kaikan( Conference Hall run by the alumni association of Kyoto
   University)
   Kyoto University, JAPAN
   http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index-e.html

11. Organizing and Program Committees

Chair:Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Organizers:Hajime Kita, Kyoto University, Japan
            (kita @ media.kyoto-u.ac.jp),
            Toshiyuki Kaneda, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan,
            Kiyoshi Arai, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee(in alphabetical order):
       Robert Axtell, Brookings institution, U.S.A.
       Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
       Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
       Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, George Mason University, U.S.A.
       Hiroshi Deguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
       Yoshi Fujiwara, ATR Human Information Science Labs., Japan
       Toshiya Kaihara, Kobe University, Japan
       Thomas Lux, Kiel University, Germany
       Hideyuki Mizuta, IBM JAPAN, Japan
       Yoshiteru Nakamori, JAIST, Japan
       Akira Namatame, National Defence Academy, Japan
       Keiji Suzuki, Future University-Hakodate, Japan
       Keiki Takadama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
       Shingo Takahashi, Waseda University, Japan
       David W. K. Yeung, Hong Kong Baptist University and
       St. Petersburg State University, China
       Makoto Yokoo, NTT CS Lab., Japan

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Professor Nigel Gilbert,  Editor, Journal of Artificial Societies and
      Social Simulation, <http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS/>
         Centre for Research on Social Simulation (CRESS)
    Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
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                        <http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/>